Humans first visited the Moon in 1969. The last time we went was 1972, over 50 years ago. Back then, astronauts in the Apollo program made their journeys in spacecraft that relied on remarkably basic ...
Modern smartphones contain millions of times more computing power than the technology that took NASA’s first astronauts to the moon 50 years ago this week. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the ...
Apollo 14 launched under significant pressure to restore NASA's prestige and secure future funding, following the near-disaster of Apollo 13, with Commander Alan Shepard leading the mission amidst ...